Italian American Heritage
Essays & Links
by Anthony Buccino
"If only this kitchen could
talk!" Aunt Connie said when I visited her in April. She was 83 and still
living in the same house where she was born.
From:
Who Is Brother,
Uncle Bim?
Andrew
Pagliaro died April 22, last week. He was 93 years old. I never got to talk to him before
he died. I have a couple of letters he sent me a couple of years ago.
From:
At Spatola's
Home for Funerals
Harry was four years old when his dad
died in a coal mine cave-in in Wilkes Barre, Pa. Harry was the youngest of eight
children, the oldest was barely a teenager. That was February 1929.
From:
Coal Miner's
Kids' Christmas
In
the Florida room of Uncle Bim's home in Florida, I finally asked
him how he came to be called "Bim." After all, my research had shown that his
real name was Donato which he had Americanized to Daniel. But everybody called him
"Uncle Bim" for 80 years. Why?
From:
Great Gramps Was A
Pumpkin
A Debt To Honor
Ordinary folks risked all saving
strangers
'We did what we knew needed to be done'
The true story of how nearly 40,000 Jews in Italy were saved
from Nazi annihilation during World War II
Buccino wins UNICO
National Americanism award
Books
A Father's Place - An Eclectic Collection
-
Early writings about family life, day trips, Brookdale Soda, too
much coffee, pets, friendships and more!
AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty,
working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey.
Sister Dressed Me Funny
- Tales about
- of all things - a naked statue and the school tie, Italian
American family roots and that dress his sister made him wear.
Rambling Round - Inside
and Outside at the Same Time
- Essays written from the heart and the hearth about family, life
and growing up in north Jersey.
VOICES ON THE BUS
- Working class verse and tales,
musings and random observations about commuting in Northern New
Jersey.
ONE MORNING IN
JERSEY CITY
- Poems written along
the Hudson River Walkway, Grundy Pier, the Goldman Sachs can of
Coke, and the Colgate clock in Jersey City, N.J.
Belleville Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid
for Our Freedom
- 174-page second edition includes more
information on the American Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, WWI,
WWW II, Korea, Vietnam and peacetime casualties.
Nutley Sons Honor Roll - Remembering the Men Who Paid for Our
Freedom,
information about
the more than 130 Nutley sons who
died while in service to our country.
Fourth edition.
Book
reviews written by Anthony Buccino
Recommended reading Italian
American and other topics
Italian American Writers' Association
Italian American hero deserves
recognition
Heritage Preservation Associates
Italian American Links
Italian American One
Voice Coalition
Genealogy Link
Italian
American Network A channel for all things Italian
Italy With Us
an ezine for lovers of
Italy.
Italian American Press
Tour Italy Access Italy provides private and exclusive tours throughout Italy.
Virtual
Italia -sharing Italian culture with the world
Italian blog for Italophiles
ItaliAmerica
Italia Mia
Comunes of Italy
Italian Translation Service
Italian American book list!
BOOKS
Maria Mazziotti Gillan
Italian
Women In Black Dresses
Things My Mother Told Me
All That Lies Between Us
Taking Back My Name
Maria Mazziotti
Gillan Greatest Hits 1972-2002
Maria Mazziotti Gillan: Essays on Her Works,
a book edited by Sean Thomas Dougherty,
Italian American Writers On New Jersey
Identity
Lessons: Contemporary Writing About Learning to Be American
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Tom Perrotta
Little Children
Election
The Wishbones
Joe College
Bad Haircut: Stories of the
Seventies
Buccino: On Perrotta
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Salvatore Buttaci
A Family
of Sicilians: Stories and Poems
Boy On A Swing and Other Poems
Promising
the Moon - poems by Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci
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Una Storia Segreta
- Lawrence DiStasi
Finding
Italian Roots by John Philip Colletta
They Came In Ships
by John P. Colletta
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In The
Garden of Papa Santuzzu by Tony Ardizzone
Taking It Home - Stories from the
Neighborhood by Tony Ardizzone
* * * * * * * * * * Don't Tell
Mama Regina Barreca
Andiamo, Weasel! - Rose Marie Grant
Moustache Pete Is Dead!
- Fred L. Gardaphe
Dances with Luigi
- Paul Paolicelli
Beyond The
Godfather - Italian American Writers on the Real Italian American Experience editors: A.
Kenneth Ciongoli and Jay Parini
La Storia,
Five Centuries of the Italian-American Experience by Jerre Mangione & Ben Morreale
The Humble and the
Heroic Wartime Italian Americans by Salvatore LaGumina
Memoirs of Lt. Camillo Viglino, Italian
Air Force 1915-1916
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Italian
Americans in World War II - Peter L. Belmonte
Blood of My
Blood - Richard Gambino
Mount Allegro - Jerry Mangione
Growing Up
Italian In God's Country - Patricia Costa Viglucci
Heritage Italian-American Style - Leon J. Radomile
The Garlic in the Melting Pot - Lewis
M. Elia
ROSA The Life of an
Italian Immigrant by Marie Hall Ets
Unto The Sons - Gay
Talese
Ciao, America
- Beppe Severgnini
Italian
Stories - stories by Joseph Papaleo
Were You Always an
Italian? by Maria Laurino
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Sometimes I
Dream In Italian - Rita Ciresi
The Last
Cannoli - Camille Cusumano
Recipes My Nonna Taught Me - by Francena
Growing Up
Italian by Linda Brandi Cateura
Under The Tuscan
Sun by Frances Mayes
NEWARK'S
Little Italy - The Vanished First Ward - Michael Immerso
The Big Hunger by
John Fante
The Fortunate
Pilgrim by Mario Puzo
The Last Cannoli - Camille Cusumano
The Altar Boy
Chronicles by Tony Pasquarello
With Heart and Soul
- Calgary's Italian Community by Antonella Fanella
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AMERICAN BOY: Pushing Sixty,
working class verse about life and growing up in New Jersey.
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